Choice number one
Follow the link, read the article, find the 8 targets and write a precis. (the 8 targets is a comprehension technique I teach, and a precis is a kind of text we often produce in my classes. If you want to know more, let me know)
Is It Time To Ban
Computers From Classrooms?
Choice number two
Read the photo, above and the following lyrics, below. What connections between the two texts jump out at you? Are there more subtle connections that you can discover? What other poem might you match with this photo?
Click to watch the author sing her poem, or not, another choice.
Let the Mystery Be
Everybody's wonderin' what and where
They all came from
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go
When the whole thing's done
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me
I think I'll just let the mystery be
They all came from
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go
When the whole thing's done
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me
I think I'll just let the mystery be
Some say once gone you're gone forever
And some say you're gonna come back
Some say you rest in the arms of the Savior
If in sinful ways you lack
Some say that they're comin' back in a garden
Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas
I think I'll just let the mystery be
And some say you're gonna come back
Some say you rest in the arms of the Savior
If in sinful ways you lack
Some say that they're comin' back in a garden
Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas
I think I'll just let the mystery be
Some say they're goin' to a place called Glory
And I ain't saying it ain't a fact
But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory
And I don't like the sound of that
I believe in love and I live my life accordingly
But I choose to let the mystery be
And I ain't saying it ain't a fact
But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory
And I don't like the sound of that
I believe in love and I live my life accordingly
But I choose to let the mystery be
Songwriters
DEMENT, IRIS LUELLA
DEMENT, IRIS LUELLA
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Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Beautiful writing came out of your music & picture prompt.
ReplyDeleteHere is what I wrote for today's prompt:
ReplyDeleteI first heard Iris DeMent at a BluesGrass Festival in Telluride (we went to hear James Taylor, who is just so wonderful, but that’s a different writing prompt from 1988).
Iris DeMent’s voice and music reminds me of my mother’s home state, Alabama. On Sunday mornings my granddaddy would have the tv on to a station that played gospel music, but this gospel music did not sound like anything I had ever heard growing up in the west. And the messages of the music was different from what I normally heard. Iris DeMent has that same voice. Is it a good voice or a bad voice? Well, it depends upon what you value. She has a real voice. I can hear a Momma in the hills singing these songs to her children at night. The messages are not based upon some class that someone took or upon what someone important said. They are based upon the wisdom of logic and experience. Sometimes we forget that “uneducated” people carry great wisdom.
Her music, for me, comes from a different time and a different place. I’m so glad that I got a bit of that time and place in my life, but wish that I could find it again.